NEMLA 2015: Urban Ecology and the Postcolonial Global Subject
This panel considers the specific role of urban environments in imagining postcolonial subjects' relationship to the world. How and why do cities function as the locus for a cosmopolitan identity, while villages remain the bearers of tradition? How have discourses of globalization and environmental justice changed considerations of postcolonial subjectivity and environments in our century? What literary innovations have helped represent the sedimented historical landscapes of colonialism, global capitalism, and histories of devastation?
Chair: Vivek Freitas
Area: Anglophone
Cross: Culture & Media Studies